Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260773 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9643
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Although women earn approximately 50 percent of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor’s degrees, more than 70 percent of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, we examine the effects of being assigned female math and science professors on occupation choice and postgraduate education. We find that, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation and the probability of receiving a STEM master’s degree.
JEL: 
I20
J16
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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